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megatragedy en · NOUN

Etymology

From mega- + tragedy.

Meanings

1. A huge tragedy.
   • Yeah, I know, it's a megatragedy, but they happen once a week. 2005, Hugh Cook, To Find and Wake the Dreamer, page 533:
   • The ravages of war and the nation's megatragedy had not touched the Platupes. 2015, Melanija Vanaga, Suddenly, a Criminal: Sixteen Years in Siberia, page 305:
   • However, there can be difficulties, indeed megatragedies, when an ethic is made into metaphysics and must assume the burden of answering the foundational questions of being and meaning. 1994, George F. McLean, Tradition, Harmony, and Transcendence, page 87:

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